Lindros Arrives, LeClair Stays Out

Linemates Eric Lindros and John LeClair took different approaches to their contract renegotiations with the Philadelphia Flyers. On the first day of training camp in Voorhees, N.J., Lindros showed up while LeClair did not.

Lindros is in the option year of a contract scheduled to pay him a base of $3.6 million this season. LeClair is in the middle of a five-year, $7-million deal signed after the 1995 season.

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